Family Strengths in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use

描述（由申请人提供）：风险，弹性和保护因素确定的先前的研究是重要的结构，预防青少年使用酒精和其他药物。这些结构在预测青少年使用AOD方面仍然相对稳健。然而，有必要更仔细地探讨父母和年龄较大的青少年如何看待和实施风险、复原力和保护因素。本研究的主要目标是建立在以前的研究，使更深入的了解与现有的风险，弹性和保护结构的行为。我们的具体目标如下：具体目标1：对于年龄较大的青少年，说明和分类在青少年AOD使用的现有模型中确定的每个风险，保护和弹性结构的父母/家庭行动的描述性帐户（例如，父母的监督、管教方式、父母的管理方式、家庭纽带、家庭仪式、宗教性、可用性/可获得性）。具体目标二：比较父母和大龄青少年提供的具体目标1中的结构的描述性说明，并确定重叠（父母/青少年之间），并检查当目标青少年是女性与男性时，父母和青少年表达的主题内容的差异。具体目标3：将这些定性调查结果"映射"到衡量这些结构的现有工具。将对100个家庭（父母和一名16 - 17岁的青少年）进行定性访谈（包括一些封闭式问题）。该样本将来自一项先前资助的研究，该研究对青少年和父母进行了抽样，并收集了有关青少年AOD使用的前三波数据，以及关于家庭的封闭式问题。这项研究是重要的，因为定性研究可以提供丰富或"厚"的描述性的反应，参与者给开放式的问题，并提供一个真实的世界观的生活，因为他们experienced.We提出，可能有不同的细微差别，已经出现在风险，弹性和保护结构。我们还建议，即使我们发现，我们不需要改变一个特定的措施，实际上为我们提供我们正在研究的测量模型，深入的探索也可以为我们现有的测量提供更丰富的意义。这些信息将通过提供以下内容为家庭预防方案提供新的信息，从而为实际世界做出实质性贡献：（1）更好地了解这些父母行为的内容是如何变化的; 2）青少年和父母如何不同地看待这些行为; 3）父母行为的内容如何在父母和青少年之间动态地相互作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Risk, resiliency, and protective factors identified by prior research are important constructs for prevention of adolescents' use of alcohol and other drugs. These constructs remain relatively robust through the adolescent years in predicting AOD use. However, there is a need to explore more carefully how parents and older adolescents perceive and implement the risk, resiliency and protective factors. The major goals of this study are to build upon prior research by bringing more in-depth understandings to behaviors related to the existing risk, resilience, and protective constructs. Our specific aims are as follows: Specific Aim 1: For older adolescents, to illustrate and categorize descriptive accounts of parental/family actions of each of the risk, protective, and resilience constructs identified in the existing models for adolescent AOD use (e.g., parental monitoring, disciplinary practices, parenting management style, family bonding, family rituals, religiousness, availability/access). Specific Aim 2: To compare the descriptive accounts provided by parents and older adolescents of the constructs in Specific Aim 1 and to determine the overlap (between parents/adolescents) and to examine the differences in thematic content expressed by parents and adolescents when the target adolescent is female vs. male. Specific Aim 3: To "map" these qualitative findings to the existing instruments that measure these constructs. Qualitative interviews (that include some closed-ended questions) will be conducted with 100 families (both parents and one 16-17 year old adolescent). This sample will be drawn from a prior funded study that sampled adolescents and parents and with data from three prior waves regarding adolescent AOD use, and closed-ended questions on families. This study is significant because qualitative research can provide rich or "thick" descriptive responses that participants give to open-ended questions and provide a real world view of life as they experience it. We are proposing that there may be different nuances that have emerged in the risk, resilience, and protective constructs. We are also proposing that in-depth explorations could give richer meaning to our existing measures, even if we discover, that we need not change a particular measure to actually provide us with our measurement models we are investigating. This information would substantively contribute to the practical world by providing new information for family prevention programs by providing: (1) A better understanding of how varied the content of these parental behaviors are; 2) How differently the adolescent and the parents perceive these behaviors; 3) How this content of parental behaviors dynamically interact between parents and adolescents.